How Part Time Internet Marketing Led me to a Six Figure Website Sale

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I used to work a day job for 40 hours plus per week, and I desperately wanted out of that situation. I had very little free time and almost zero energy for doing the things that I wanted to do in my life. My day job was like a life-sucking vampire that just drained all of my time and ambition.

Once I realized that this pattern of working full time was going to continue indefinitely unless I did something about it, I decided to get serious and take action.

Here is what I did to turn my situation around and finally purchase my freedom:

1) Made a decision to dedicate time to building a business. 2) Put in time every single day toward reaching business goals. 3) Focused on growing income. 4) Focused on lowering monthly expenses. 5) Cash out and live the dream on passive investment income! Made a decision to dedicate time to building a business There was a point in my life where I … [Read more...]

How To Stand Out Among 989756329 Bloggers With Your Writing

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Blogging has become so competitive; whether it is for business or fun, every blogger wants to attract attention.

There are leads to capture, there are friends/following to be acquired and of course, there are bills to be paid.

When an internet marketer realizes that the competition is tough and at the same time he/she needs to feed and survive, it all gets a lot worse. He/She is literally forced into a situation where they need to put in lots of effort to stay afloat and compete with the giants.

And when success gets delayed only frustration remains.

However, it is really surprising that all the impatient internet marketers who start and quit at a fast pace forget one crucial aspect to succeed in today's online world among the tough competition.

It is no secret. In fact it is just common sense and needs no extra … [Read more...]

Niche Specific Blogging: Appeal Your Audience

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As of July 2011, there are roughly 164 million blogs on the internet, with the number growing every day. Given this number, it may seem like a daunting task to create a profitable blog that stands out.

However, one way to attract visitors and build traffic is to focus a blog on a specific niche. By choosing a specific area of demand, bloggers can build an authority and find their place in the Internet.

The Benefits of Targeting a Specific Audience

Why choose to write a niche specific blog? Many beginning bloggers may feel hesitant towards creating this type of blog, worried that they may quickly lose content or the enthusiasm to sustain the blog.

However, there are a number of benefits that eventually convince bloggers to target a niche … [Read more...]

Is Writing Sabotaging Your Social Media?

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You're on Facebook, Twitter, and now you're on Pinterest, too.

You tweet, share, like, +1, and more, until your clicking finger starts to feel numb.

Why?

Because you want to connect. You want to engage. You want to interact. You want people to come back to your blog, and actually read your stuff!

Except that usually, they aren't. And when they do, they don't stay, or come back.

Does this sound familiar?

If it does, it might just be a problem with your … [Read more...]

Blogging Tips 101 Contest: Announcing The Winners

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When I first got this contest idea in mind, I was excited. Since this is the first contest I was going to run, I had a mixed feeling of fear and excitement. I was not sure how to take the right steps.

The big things of concern are finding sponsors for the contest and getting people to participate. Since blogging contests are getting so popular (and as well so common) I was in doubt if anyone will step in to participate.

Finding sponsors for the contest

As I said, this is one of the most challenging bits. Let it be money, or products, you cannot easily get people to say "yes". But in my case, I was lucky (or should I say I followed a success strategy?). Given that this is the first contest I'm conducting at this blog, the prize money and the bonus product prizes offered are really cool in amount and value.

I did a brief consultation with Hesham of Famous … [Read more...]

How to Perform Easy YouTube Video Optimization

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YouTube, the most popular video sharing website, is by far the 2nd largest search engine right after Google. Well, some might know about this fact, although others just don't. Statistics have it that YouTube receives around 2 billion pageviews a day coming from people all over the world.

Talking about this popular search engine for videos, the concept of video marketing may just come into your mind. Since a lot of people search for some helpful information by way of watching videos and clips, it is a good thing to take into account video marketing as well as the means to promote it to the highest possible way.

But wait! Before you create your video and submit it to YouTube, it is best to find out first what are the most essential YouTube video optimization practices you should … [Read more...]

5 Tips to Help You Become A Problogger

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There is nothing more terrifying and fulfilling than abandoning a safe and tested profession to plunge into a new and very challenging career such as blogging. It feels good to be able to do what you love the most on your own terms with a very flexible schedule.

But at the same time, establishing a territory on the internet is stricken with doubts. It takes enough of never give up attitude to make it in this field.

After six months of blogging, I finally have a full grip of my website and I've been inspired with the many opportunities that come along the way. Building a website is like maneuvering a ship; you try to find the safe route but there will still be dangers on the way that you´ll have to deal with. Oftentimes, you got to follow your guts.

My first six active months of blogging has been full of adventure and experimentation, below are the important … [Read more...]

Thirsty Affiliates Plugin Review: Affiliate Marketing With Ease

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There are wide varieties of plugins to enhance performance and to get an altogether new functionality on your blog. Wordpress users are immensely benefited by using plugins for various occasions. These plugins are intended to increase your productivity. You can better organize and manage your affiliate marketing job through a dedicated plug-in.

For professional bloggers, affiliate marketing is a great source of income. However, it will be a tough time to manage hundreds of affiliate links on your blog. Even though there are many affiliate links managing plugins available in the market, there is one premium plug-in that brings remarkable success and easiness in maintenance of your affiliate links.

Thirsty Affiliates is a … [Read more...]

How To Use Affiliate Marketing In Your Blog

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With the recent revelation that the red hot social media site Pinterest has been using the service Skimlinks in order to to monetize their burgeoning community and generate fresh revenue, many bloggers have been asking themselves, “Why not me?”

Indeed, a countless number of bloggers and site managers use a wide variety of website optimization tools and affiliate marketing strategies in order to try and bring in cash flow online. But they're not always successful.

Skimlinks seems to have done fairly well for Pinterest, allowing them to collect a percentage of the … [Read more...]

Blog Commenting for Link Building: What’s the catch?

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Blogging, as widely understood over the past few years since its inception, has hit the stage of internet space with a much attention-seeking phenomenon. It has been claimed that there are over 150 million blogs in the sphere of blogs so far. The numbers keep being added in the denomination of thousands every single day.

Therefore, if you take into consideration all of those new blogs added every day, then you would know how many people are seeking for the attention of the readers and how challenging it is to succeed as a blogger.

The Golden Rule of “No Nonsense Commenting”

What is it about 'commenting on a blog'? Interestingly, the bottom line of commenting on a blog is so magnetic in nature, since opinions always differ humanistically, as they are never the same in most of the cases.

In addition, to draw more traffic on the blog, your comments need to … [Read more...]